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Antonio Maria Abbatini ( or 1610 – or 1679) was an Italian
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
, active mainly in
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. Abbatini was born in Città di Castello. He served as maestro di cappella at the Basilica of St. John Lateran from 1626 to 1628; at the cathedral in Orvieto in 1633; and at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome between 1640 and 1646, 1649 to 1657, and 1672 to 1677.Garvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ''Abatini, Antonio Maria'', 1999 He composed church music, and published three books of Masses, four of Psalms, various 24-part Antiphons (1630, 1638, 1677), five books of Motets (1635), and a dramatic cantata, ''Il Pianto di Rodomonte'' (1633). He also worked with Athanasius Kircher on the '' Musurgia Universalis''. In addition, he produced three operas: '' Dal male il bene'' (Rome, 1654; in collaboration with Marco Marazzoli), which was one of the earliest
comic opera Comic opera, sometimes known as light opera, is a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue. Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...
s, and historically important as it introduced the final ensemble; ''Ione'' (Vienna, 1666); and ''La comica del cielo'', also called ''La Baltasara'' (Rome, 1668). Antonio Cesti was among his pupils.


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* 17th-century births 1670s deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 17th-century Italian composers Italian Baroque composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers 17th-century Irish male musicians {{Opera-bio-stub